Eugene Lewis woke this morning to police at his home and a horrifying discovery outside.

“Police knocked on the door and said you have a dead body in your front yard,” said Lewis,
55, a South Linden resident who has lived in the 1400 block of E. 23rd Avenue for two decades. “Oh
God, it was terrible.”

Patrol officers discovered the body of a woman just after 7:30 this morning. They'd been
flagged down by an elderly man who said he'd seen someone lying on the sidewalk.

When the officers arrived, the street was quiet. The woman lay on the sidewalk, dead from an
apparent gunshot wound. She hasn't been identified yet. Police say she's a light-skinned black
woman between the ages of 25 and 35.

Lewis said he didn't hear anything happen outside his home. It wasn't until the knock on his
door that he looked a window and saw the woman, who he said was wearing tennis shoes and a tank
top. He noticed “a lot of blood.”